Kitchen hazards from Shmini Atzeret
Oct. 10th, 2007 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidPart of an irregular series of articles. Already featured perils: garlic, tomato soup, and corkscrews.
One of the five-day candles I used over yom tov had the wick too close to the glass, which lead to the glass breaking. Of course, I saw the large pieces of glass when I walked into the kitchen barefoot in the morning, so it shouldn't be a surprise that I managed to find a small shard in my heel. Actually, the strange part was that there wasn't more glass than that on the floor. Was annoying for walking for a day or two, though.
And then there was the cooking of lunch. Reheating, mostly, given that I'd already made the soup to which I wanted to add sausages. They were sausages frozen together in heavy sealed plastic. It's never been a problem before to cut a line between two sausages, then push on the package until they break apart, so I did that this time, too. Unfortunately, this time it worked differently, breaking in a slightly different place with such unexpected force that my middle finger's nail was bent back, below the quick. Ouch. I folded it back into place, and there don't seem to be any long-term effects (no black and blue marks under the nail, just a line of blood), but I am definitely going to be more wary of frozen foods in the future!
One of the five-day candles I used over yom tov had the wick too close to the glass, which lead to the glass breaking. Of course, I saw the large pieces of glass when I walked into the kitchen barefoot in the morning, so it shouldn't be a surprise that I managed to find a small shard in my heel. Actually, the strange part was that there wasn't more glass than that on the floor. Was annoying for walking for a day or two, though.
And then there was the cooking of lunch. Reheating, mostly, given that I'd already made the soup to which I wanted to add sausages. They were sausages frozen together in heavy sealed plastic. It's never been a problem before to cut a line between two sausages, then push on the package until they break apart, so I did that this time, too. Unfortunately, this time it worked differently, breaking in a slightly different place with such unexpected force that my middle finger's nail was bent back, below the quick. Ouch. I folded it back into place, and there don't seem to be any long-term effects (no black and blue marks under the nail, just a line of blood), but I am definitely going to be more wary of frozen foods in the future!